How to Make $60k Tuition Work
Another great flag from Robert Gibson: father of a George Washington University student is suing...
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Category: Politics and Dysfunction
US Higher Education’s Billion-Dollar Liability
I am not a lawyer. I don’t even play one on TV. I’m a literal-minded engineer who loves education...
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A Simple Metric to Align Higher Education with the Workplace
It is now widely accepted that the job of college is to get you a job. While schools are talking...
Read MoreThe Kids Can’t Write? They Write All Day…
Cross-post from 11trees.com… Infographics are often quite silly. They try to boil down complex issues into simplistic graphics, with stick figures and stylized pie charts. The good ones, though, unveil some central truth...
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Response To The Changes in the SAT
Scott Warnock has a nice survey of the coverage of the SAT in his most recent When Falls the...
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A Haiku for Apple / Not Insanely Great
Your stuff doesn’t work Maps, fingerprint, battery. Not insanely great.
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Can Corporations be Brave? Independence Blue Cross, Pearson, and Spotify
We know that corporations are people – at least in a legal sense. Some argue in a more...
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Contingent Faculty & Departments: Who Will Be First Out the Door?
If you’re following the alleged slow collapse of American higher education, then it’s...
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What Happens When Kids Take Over School: Unschooling the Viking Way
What would happen if kids took over their school, booted out the teachers, designed their own...
Read MoreWhy Do We Hire Universities?
Two great reads today: Ev William’s, as reported by Wired: “Here’s the formula if you want to build a billion-dollar internet company,” he said. “Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long...
Read MoreFrayed Logic. How America Makes Excuses for College Unemployment
In “Frayed Prospects, Despite a Degree” journalist Shaila Dewan takes the mainstream media’s sob-story around employment (and unemployment) to the front pages of the New York Times. Culprits aren’t named...
Read MoreA Mini-Collage of Colleges on a Collision Course…
Two stories today in Inside Higher Ed are all the more powerful for their proximity. Not only are mid-tier schools, without strong brands or big endowments, beginning to suffer, but the numbers of international students on...
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